2025 Reading Challenge discussion

THE 2016 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, - December 31, 2016

Every November, the Goodreads Choice Awards come around, and readers get to vote on the best books of the year. To encourage members to read the books that may be in the running this year, we thought it'd be fun to have a challenge around this event.

Set a goal to read books published in 2016. The idea is that we, as a group, want to have read as many books in each category as we can! Please identify which category (or categories) the book falls in. These were 2015's categories (they sometimes change, so we can't guarantee that these will be the 2016 categories):

Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
Historical Fiction
Fantasy
Romance
Science Fiction
Horror
Humor
Nonfiction
Memoir & Autobiography
History & Biography
Science & Technology
Food & Cookbooks
Graphic Novels & Comics
Poetry
Debut Goodreads Author
Young Adult Fiction
Young Adult Fantasy
Middle Grade & Children's
Picture Books

When the nominations come around in 2016, we will be ready!

Update: Bella share a valuable link that may help you with this challenge. Explore will help you find popular books published in 2016 being read across Goodreads.

How to Participate

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.

Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the challenge leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.

For more information about how challenges work, check out This Thread or ask your challenge leader.

Participants

Amanda 0/20
Andrew 17/16 Completed!
Anna (message 54) 0/10
Anna (message 153) 2/10
Ariel 14/10 Completed!
Beth (Ducky) 0/15
Brianna 0/5
Caitlin 30/20 Completed!
Cheri 8/8 Completed!
Chloe 0/5
ChrisP 0/10
Cindy III 10/16
Clare L 15/15 Completed!
Daye 0/15
Emma 10/15
Erin 16/17
Gail 10/10 Completed!
Geri 8/8 Completed!
Gwen 0/2
Hannah 6/12
Ilona 5/5 Completed!
Jaqueline 1/10
Jennifer 12/50
Jessie 6/5 Completed!
Jill 1/20
Juliefellioncomcast.net 1/12
Justin 0/5
Kady 0/10
Kara 0/15
Karen 0/6
Karoline 0/3
Kme_17 0/10
Konstantina 0/45
Lindsey 0/30
Lindsey IL 0/12
Lulu 0/25
Lucy Jade 0/15
Maria (message 27) 4/5
Maria (message 228) 0/10
Marie Claude 0/5
Mary Pat 2/10
Maureen 0/10
Maxine 17/15 Completed!
Meg 0/10
Megan 26/20 Completed!
Melissa 0/10
Meranda 3/35
Missy 0/12
Monique 10/10 Completed!
Natalie (message 57) 12/25
Natalie (message 58) 20/20 Completed!
Nik 0/12
Nikinnia 0/13
Polina 0/12
Rachael 19/15 Completed!
Rebecca 0/7
Rikke 17/15 Completed!
Sabina 0/5
Sam F 4/5
Sarah 0/15
ScarlettMi 0/20
Scott 0/12
Sherry 10/10 Completed!
Stephanie 0/10
Stephanie (Chincillita) 1/10
Tammie 0/19

as of message 274

I'm going to join in for 20!

Fiction:
- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney - completed June 2016
- Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty - completed November 2016

Mystery & Thriller:
- All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage - completed September 2016
- The Widow by Fiona Barton - completed November 2016

Historical Fiction:
- A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls by Jessica Spotswood - completed July 2016
- At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier - completed August 2016
- The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi - completed August 2016
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - completed November 2016
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly - completed December 2016

Fantasy:
- Grave of Hummingbirds by Jennifer Skutelsky - completed January 2016 (4.5 stars)
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas - completed June 2016
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by J.K. Rowling - completed November 2016

Romance:
- Anything for You by Kristan Higgins - completed January 2016 (4.5 stars)
- When I'm Gone by Emily Bleeker - completed September 2016 (4 stars)
- The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich - completed October 2016 (3.5 stars)
- The Obsession by Nora Roberts - completed November 2016 (4 stars)
- It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - completed December 2016 (4.5 stars)

Science Fiction:
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - completed December 2016

Memoir:
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - completed September 2016

Nonfiction:
- Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds by Pamela Sakamoto - completed June 2016
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond - completed September 2016

Debut Goodreads Author:
- The Nix by Nathan Hill - completed November 2016

Young Adult Fiction:

Young Adult Fantasy:
- The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski - completed September 2016
- Passenger by Alexandra Bracken - completed September 2016
- Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard - completed November 2016
- The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge - completed December 2016

26/20 - challenge completed!!!

I'd like to join to read 15 please.

1. The Woman Who Upped and Left by Fiona Gibson
2. While My Eyes Were Closed by Linda Green
3. The Quiet Ones by Betsy Reavley
4.Out of Sorts by Aurélie Valognes
5. Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All BY Jonas Jonasson
6. The Children's Home BY Charles Lambert
7. Britt-Marie Was Here BY Fredrik Backman
8. Abigale Hall BY Lauren A. Forry
9.The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper BY Phaedra Patrick
10. The Astonishing Return of Norah Wells BY Virginia Macgregor
11. Behind Closed Doors BY B.A. Paris
12.

I want to join this too :) Five books.

Count me in for 10, please.

Just to make sure: this is the books published in 2015? Is it just the winners who count or nominees too?

Winter, my understanding is that this is for books published in 2016 for the 2016 Choice Awards.

Winter wrote: "Just to make sure: this is the books published in 2015? Is it just the winners who count or nominees too?"

There was a date typo that I just fixed. Thanks for finding it. This is for books published in 2016.

Completed 10/10

1) Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs (fantasy)
2) Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Science Fiction/Young Adult Fiction)
3) The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin (Science Fiction/Horror)
4) Calamity by Brandon Sanderson (Young Adult/Fantasy)
5) Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry (Horror)
6) The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson (Fantasy)
7) Extinction End by Nicholas Sansbury Smith - Horror and apocalyptic
8) Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer (Science Fiction)
9) Paper and Fire - Rachel Caine (Fantasy/Young Adult/Apocalyptic)
10) River of Ink - Paul M. M. Cooper (historical Fiction)

Potential To Read:

Please put me in for 10

I'll try for 5 books - will add which ones later. Thanks!

Every year I'm unable to vote because I never read any of the newest books. This challenge might change things for me this year! I'm in for, um…12, I think. Thank you. =)

I'm in for 15. Thanks, Kadijah!

I'll try for 15:

Finished: 15/15

Science Fiction:
1. The Last Star - 05/06/2016
2. Morning Star - 08/03/2016 ~ Nominated

Horror:
1. Disappearance at Devil's Rock 15/10/2016 ~Nominated
2. The Women in the Walls - 04/11/2016

Fantasy:
1. Frost Like Night - 14/09/2016
2. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - 04/08/2016 ~ Nominated ~ Winer
3. Glass Sword~ Nominated

Historical Fiction
1. The Devils of Cardona - 19/12/2016

Mystery/Thriller:
1. The Outliers - 08/07/2016
2. The Girl In The Ice - 19/05/2016 ~ Nominated
3. The Widow - 12/11/2016 ~ Nominated

Young-Adult
1. The Unexpected Everything ~ Nominated
2. Salt to the Sea - 07/10/2016~ Nominated ~ Winer
3. Lily and the Octopus ~ Nominated
4.Tales of the Peculiar

Do members just nominate books for the Choice Awards or is there a list the website works from? I only really started using the site in October. I am fairly new.

Will this be a late challenge then? The winners this year came out just recently.

Or am I mixing things up?

Stephanie (R-A) wrote: "Do members just nominate books for the Choice Awards or is there a list the website works from? I only really started using the site in October. I am fairly new."

Goodreads picks books for round 1, but members can also write-in nominations. From this, books for round 2 are picked, and then the final round is chosen.

Winter wrote: "Will this be a late challenge then? The winners this year came out just recently."

The idea is that we'll read books throughout the year that can qualify for the Choice Awards--that way, when the first round opens, we'll have read some of the books nominated.

Ah:) This will be fun! Thanks Kara:) Haven't done this one before!

Kara, I noticed that a lot of the books that ended up on the GR's Choice Awards are ranked in the "Popular Books". There's a monthly list and a yearly list. Also one of the staff of GR's made comments in the GR's Choice Award posts about the algorithm they use- popularity and ranking. I think she mentioned the cutoff was a rating of something like 3.8; it was a high 3 rating, in any case. I think that this works better for some genres, like non-fiction, and will work less well for something like romance where there are just too many books that rank in the popular list.

Link to popular books, January, 2016. You can use the drop down to get to other months:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...

The yearly list for 2016 isn't up, but you can navigate there using the above link.

Great info, Bella. Thank you!

Thanks Bella, that is a really interesting link. I may have to check out some new books this year.

I just think this one will be so much fun! This year I was like: "uhm have I even read one of these?" It will be fun voting and seeing how many "hits" we have as a group :-D

I'm in for five.

I would like to join in on this challenge i have been meaning for awhile to try books in different genres so i'm going to see how i go on and try some that may fit in for these. Not sure what or how many at the min though.

I really enjoyed the quarterly challenge for the Goodreads Choice Awards of this year, so I would like to sign up for this one. I'll start with a goal of 5 books!
Hopefully, The Winds of Winter is among them.

Fiction
The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Histrorical Fiction
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Fantasy
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two by J.K. Rowling

Young Adult Fiction
Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick


5/5

2016 Choice Awards Challenge

1. When Breath Becomes Air
2. The Butcher's Hook
3. The Unfinished World: And Other Stories
4. The Trouble With Women
5. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
6. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
7. The Girl of Ink and Stars
8. Small Gods: A Discworld Graphic Novel
9. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
10. Sleeping Giants
11. Another Day in the Death of America
12. I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1: Madly Ever After

6/12

Romance:
1. Shallow Graves
2. Exposure
3. Crossing Fire

Fantasy
1. Age of Myth
2. Time Salvager
3. Of Light and Darkness

Young Adult Fiction
1. P.S. I Like You
2. This Savage Song
3. Ever the Hunted

Young Adult Fantasy
1. The Shadow Queen
2. Truthwitch
3. Assassin's Heart

Mystery/Thriller:
1. A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder: A Ghost Hunter Mystery
2. I Woke Up Dead at the Mall
3. After the Woods

Please put me down for 15. Thank you :)

As an update to my previous msg ill attempt 5.

1 -Mystery/Thriller
2 -Historical Fiction
3 -Fantasy
4 -Sci-fi
5 -Horror

I'm going to attempt 25 books this year.

0/25

1. Morning Star (Science Fiction)
2. After the Woods (Young Adult)
3. Death's End (Science Fiction)
4. The Fireman (Science Fiction)
5. The Raven King (Young Adult Fantasy)
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I'm in and I'll shoot for a minimum of 12.

THE 2016 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, - December 31, 2016
Progress: 0/12

count me in for 5 !

Count me in for 7! That's my lucky number

The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge

I am in for 10 : )

I'd like to join for the following categories, for a grand total of 15:
Fiction - 5
Mystery - 3
Sci-Fi - 3
History & Biography - 2
Science & Technology - 2

Start date: 1/1/16
Goal: 15
0/12
I love new releases so hopefully they will pick books that I read this year!

Mystery & Thriller-3

Romance- 3

Debut Goodreads Author- 1

Young Adult Fiction- 5

Sandra, I think you posted this one in the wrong thread.

Count me in for 12...

The most likely Genres will be from

Historical Fiction
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Horror ( definitely reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )

But could come from any of the others

I'd like to join
The genres i chose are -

Young adult fiction
Young adult fantasy
Debut goodreads author
Science fiction
Fiction

I'd love to participate

I've always read a few of the Goodreads Choice awards finalist, but usually just the most popular, I would love to try and read more in a few of the categories. I will try and read 3-4 in these genres: (Lets say 17 total)

16/17

Fiction:
1. My Name Is Lucy Barton✓
2. The One-in-a-Million Boy✓

Mystery/Thriller:
1. Before the Fall✓

Historical Fiction:
1. Miller's Valley✓
2. Everyone Brave is Forgiven✓
3. The Underground Railroad
4. The Muse✓

Fantasy:
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child✓

Science Fiction:
1. Dark Matter✓

Humor:
1. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain✓
2. American Housewife: Stories✓
3. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
4. How to Party with an Infant✓

Nonfiction:
1. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
2. Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up✓
3. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging✓

Memoir & Autobiography:
1. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back✓
2. When Breath Becomes Air✓
3. Lab Girl
4. Love Warrior

Food & Cookbooks:
1. Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It

Young Adult Fiction:
1. Salt to the Sea✓

Jumping in for 10 books published in 2016 please!

1. YA Fantasy The Siren

I am in--12 books!

I am in for 6

Hi All, welcome to the challenge! So far we have 29 participants.

Hi Kadijah. I would like to join the challenge and would love to read 12 books on the Goodreads Choice lists. I am interested in books from several categories.

I'm in for 12, one newly published book each month! Genres yet to be determined...

I'll shoot for 16 books.

17/16 done


1. The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule by Igort(2/24/16) - GRAPHIC NOVEL
2. Loner: A Novel by Teddy Wayne (3/20/16) - FICTION
3. The Other Catholics: Remaking America's Largest Religion by Julie Byrne (4/9/16) - NON-FICTION
4. Guapa by Saleem Haddad (4/12/16) - FICTION
5. New Kids on the Block's Hangin' Tough by Rebecca Wallwork - (4/13/16) NON-FICTION
6. Saints + Sinners 2016: New Fiction from the Festival by Amie M. Evans 5/12/16 FICTION
7. If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny by Zach Anner (5/3/16) MEMOIR
8. Octopus Pie: Volume 1 by Meredith Gran 7/2/16 GRAPHIC NOVEL
9. One of These Things First: A Memoir by Steven Gaines 8/12/16 MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
10. Ephebophile's Web by Aaron Colombo 9/13/16 MEMOIR
11. Angels Burning by Tawni O'Dell 10/17/16 MYSTERY
12. Always Too Much and Never Enough: A Memoir by Jasmin Singer 10/18/16 MEMOIR
13. Midnighter, Vol. 1: Out by Steve Orlando 10/4/16
14. Shutter Vol. 3: Quo Vadis by Joe Keatinge 11/6/16 11/6/16
15. Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan 11/7/16
16. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan 11/16/16
17. Patience by Daniel Clowes 12/12/16